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By William Dean Howells
Part I.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things
have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning,
I suppose the origin of this novel may be...
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William Dean Howells Biographies (7)

William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American writer and editor, was an influential critic and an important novelist of the late 19th century.William Dean Howells's career spanned a period of radical cha...
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William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. ...
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William Dean Howells was known from the 1880s to his death in 1920 as the preeminent literary realist in America. Though Howells was a part of the international realism movement, his was essentially ...
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The son of a Welsh father, William Cooper Howells, and an Irish-German mother, Mary Dean Howells, William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, the second of eight children....
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William Dean Howells , on his odyssey from self-educated printer's devil to critic, novelist, and preeminent arbiter of American letters, passed through the offices of the Atlantic Monthly during the ...
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William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor...
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Biography EssayWilliam Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth cen...
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